Index of Donors and Vendors

References are to catalogue numbers.

Donors of Lamps Given to the Getty Museum

Catalogue records for the Getty’s collection of lamps often, but not always, give the place of manufacture or origin of the lamps, derived from information provided by donors or vendors. Most of the time the place where a lamp was created or found is approximate, referring to large geographical areas such as Anatolia, Italy, Tunisia, Egypt, or Syria; only exceptionally are precise locations given, for instance, Mainz, Cologne, Carthage, Rome, Paestum, El Djem, Athens, and Corinth. The reader should bear in mind that in many cases these locations may not indicate the exact findspot of the lamps, but rather the place or region where the collector purchased them or supposed they came from.

• Bromberg, Dr. F., and Mrs. Bromberg: Greece: 355–56.
• Collins, D.: No place of manufacture or origin given: 160.
• Eagleton, K.: Tunisia(?): 372, 392.
• Eagleton, W. L., Jr: Tunisia: 127, 131, 217, 228, 233, 254–55, 261, 263, 265, 283, 288, 293–94, 296, 361, 366, 376, 383, 393, 479.
• Eisenberg, J. M.: Tunisia(?): 466.
• Flanagan, P.: Sardinia: 614.
• Fleischman, B. and L.: Greece (Athens): 5; Egypt: 593; Italy: 626a, 626b, 627; no place of manufacture or origin given: 592.
• Gerchik, M.: Italy: Series of thirty-four fragments of lamps of different types listed under: 577–78, 579, 580.
• Gottlieb, M., and P.: No place of manufacture or origin given: 585.
• Hepburn, J. W., and Y.: Italy: 128.
• Lawson, R. L.: Italy: 117, 252 bis, 278–82, 299, 303–4, 352, 360, 401; Greece: 270, 340–42, 348, 351, 438 (Corinth), 481, 581; Tunisia (El Djem): 284–85, 357; no place of manufacture or origin given: 321, 395, 499.
• Sarner, H.: No place of manufacture or origin given: 624.
• Swingler, D.: No place of manufacture or origin given: 613.
• Wier, M.: North Africa: 159.
• Zeitlin, St.: No place of manufacture or origin given: 622.
• Zimmerman, M. C.: Italy: 71, 301.

Galleries or Vendors of Lamps Purchased by the Getty Museum

• Oppenländer, G.: No place of manufacture or origin given: 612 (gold lamp).
• Royal Athena Gallery: South Italy: 27.

• Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg (Germany)

  As mentioned in the introduction, in 1983 Galerie Günter Puhze in Freiburg sold to the Getty Museum a lamp collection gathered by H.-K. Schüller. In earlier years this German pharmacist had gathered another collection, which he sold to the Bochum Museum in 1974. Schüller provided a handwritten catalogue for each lamp collection, which can be useful but requires some remarks.

  First, Schüller does not attribute a place of manufacture or origin (i.e., place created or found) to all the lamps. When he does, the indication is generally very vague. What distinction did he make between Asia Minor and Anatolia? In his mind, did both appellations cover the modern country called Turkey (a word he uses only once, see lamp cat. 574)? Similarly, what distinction did he make between North Africa and Tunisia? In Morocco and Algeria the commerce in antiquities has never been as developed as in Tunisia. It is our opinion that many of the lamps Schüller attributed to North Africa were in fact found and purchased in Tunisia.

  Second, if in a very few cases Schüller is precise about place of manufacture or origin (Mainz, Cologne, Novaesium, Paestum, Rome, London), in most cases he is vague, sometimes wavering. For cat. 264, his catalogue first says Italy, but then adds in parenthesis (Greece?). Moreover, in several cases his stated place of manufacture or origin in Asia Minor contradicts the indication given by the signature or by the obviously African type of lamp concerned (see cats. 302, 315, 483, 501)—unless the lamps had been traded in ancient or modern times.

  We nevertheless have decided to quote Schüller's places of manufacture or origin exactly as he formulates them in his catalogue. When necessary, we discuss them in our catalogue entries.

Lamps without a Given Place of Manufacture or Origin in Schüller’s Catalogue

• 17, 57, 81–82, 91, 97, 132–33, 137, 139, 142, 166, 181–83, 190, 216, 258, 286, 300, 318, 353, 416, 441, 458 (mold), 500, 512, 545–46, 553, 575–76, 591.

Lamps with a Given Place of Manufacture or Origin in Schüller’s Catalogue

• Asia Minor: 8, 18, 26, 36, 42, 45–46, 52–54, 56, 59, 62–63, 113, 118, 143, 153–55, 157–58, 162, 198, 203, 239, 242, 244, 249, 272, 275, 302, 315, 323, 325, 326, 329, 332, 335, 337, 338, 339, 343, 347, 349–50, 354, 403–5, 410–11, 413, 417, 418–21, 423, 430, 434, 435–36, 439, 455, 476, 483, 488, 501, 507, 508, 514, 515, 517, 524–25, 527–34, 536–37, 539, 541, 542, 543–44, 547, 548–49, 555, 557, 558–59, 563, 565, 568, 573, 587, 594–95, 598, 602–6, 610–11, 619, 621, 623, 629–30.
• Anatolia: 1, 11, 13–14, 34, 37, 39–40, 48–50, 58, 60–61, 65, 67, 76, 78–79, 83–84, 85–86, 87, 89, 93, 95, 98, 101, 107–8, 112, 116, 122, 145, 146 bis, 163, 165, 170, 172, 174, 178, 207, 218, 222, 238, 240, 246, 269, 324, 327, 333–34, 336, 344–45, 402, 407, 414–15, 422, 425–26, 428, 432, 433, 440, 475, 513, 516, 538, 540, 552, 560, 574 (reported as Turkey), 583, 588–89, 597, 599, 615, 617–18, 620, 628.
  • Northern Anatolia: 66, 584, 590.
  • Central Anatolia: 10, 25, 28–33, 38, 41, 43, 51, 64, 90, 149, 156, 248, 328, 412, 427, 554, 582.
  • Southern Anatolia: 12, 15, 24, 35, 44, 47, 55, 68, 80, 92, 96, 105, 148, 151–52, 164, 168, 171, 186, 193, 199, 209–10, 213, 219, 221, 223, 245, 247, 251, 267, 331, 346, 406, 408–9, 424, 429, 431, 437, 457, 518, 520, 521, 522–23, 526, 535, 556, 562, 596, 625.
• Syria: 509, 550–51, 600.
• Egypt: 169, 180, 510, 601.
• North Africa: 2–4, 77, 88, 94, 99–100, 102–4, 106, 109, 111, 115, 119, 121, 124–26, 129, 135–36, 138, 140–41, 144, 146, 161, 167, 173, 175–76, 184–85, 187–89, 191–92, 194–97, 200–202, 204–6, 208, 211–12, 214–15, 220, 224–27, 229–32, 234–37, 241, 243, 250, 253, 256, 260, 262, 268, 271, 273–74, 287, 289–92, 295, 297–98, 305–6, 307–11, 313–14, 316, 317, 319–20, 322, 362–65, 367–71, 373–74, 375, 377–82, 384–88, 389–91, 394, 396–400, 447–48, 463–65, 467–68, 470–71, 472–73, 474, 477–78, 477–81, 482, 484, 485–86, 487, 489, 490–91, 492–99, 502, 503–4, 505, 506, 569, 586.
  • Tunisia: 110, 114, 120, 123, 130, 134, 252, 257, 259, 266, 358, 372, 469, 500(?).
• Italy: 16 (Paestum), 19, 70, 72-73, 74, 75, 150, 264, 561, 607, 608 (Rome).
  • South Italy: 6, 7, 9, 20, 147.
  • North Italy: 442, 444, 450.
  • Sicily: 21–22.
  • Sardinia: 23.
• Germany: 179.
  • Cologne: 69, 276–77, 445–46, 449, 451–54, 459-60, 461, 462, 564, 566–67 570–72, 609, 631.
  • Lower Rhine: 616.
  • Mainz: 359.
  • Neuss (Novaesium): 177, 312.
• England: 519 (London).